Burnt Hill Farm , almost 10 years in the making, drew family, friends and officials Friday for a ribbon-cutting ahead of a September opening.

The tasting room for the winery, founded and run by three siblings in their 30s — Lisa Hinton (winemaker), Ashli Johnson (operations), and Drew Baker (farmer) — who have overseen the growth of Old Westminster Winery over the past 10 years, is scheduled to open on Sept. 6.

The 177-acre property at 25001 Burnt Hill Road, in Clarksburg, Maryland, was purchased in December 2016. It’s located 30 miles north of Washington, D.C., and 45 miles west of Baltimore, and overlooks Sugarloaf Mountain and the Appalachians.

As for the name, per the website , farmers in the 1800s found it difficult to grow crops on the steep, rocky ground. Instead, they burne

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